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77. They Make Minimum Wage. They Could Save Your Life.

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Health Care Workers

There's much greater implications to having less staff in a health care setting because the stakes are higher. Krista Rufini takes advantage of the fact that different areas have different policies toward minimum wages. She tries to take advantage of those minimum wage increases to study what impact they have on health care workers at long-term nursing home facilities.

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